I Sold My Soul To The Devil

Chapter five

“If we stay here, we will all die.” She said that surprised me, but I still didn't fully understand what she meant. “I injected Monique's cat with a type of infectious virus, and with that virus, it can destroy the whole world.” She added, so our eyes widened in shock, and we looked at each other. Again we heard a loud scream from behind us, so we all turned around, and we couldn't believe it to see a male student sitting on top of the female student and as if he were biting her neck. We were about to approach him, but suddenly, he turned to where we were where we saw his terrifying appearance. His eyes are white, there is blood dripping from the mouth, and the movements of every bone in their body are strange. He suddenly stood up and ran towards me, but Ms. Monica immediately pulled me by my hand and ran at the same time.

I often only watch scenes like this in movies, but I never thought that it could happen in real life and if I'm not mistaken that the students we saw earlier were not ordinary people but a zombie.

But who is Ms. Monica really, and what is her true identity? How did she create that kind of virus, and what is her purpose, why does she intend to destroy the whole world? The sailing in my mind as I stare at her.

We were about to leave the university, but suddenly some professors and guards closed the exit gate and locked it. We were abandoned by the elders, who were supposed to protect us and save us. They locked us up like captives and bait for monsters. Trying to scream for help and shaking with fear, but they put their own safety first. It was as if I were deafened by those moments as I watched my entire surroundings where one of us was dying little by little and begging for help. I didn't realize that my eyes were watering because of the fear and sadness that was happening around me.

Yes, I once wished to get revenge on them, but not in this way. This is not what I expected to happen. I don't know if I should be happy because the selfish people who wasn't concerned about other students being bullied and tortured are now the ones crawling to ask for help. The people they trusted left them and abandoned them. Unexpectedly some were left with the people they never expected to be with them until their last breath. But we can't just let ourselves become a monster like them because I still have many dreams in life and I want my parents to be proud of me, so I have to get out of this place alive. So, I tried to push and knock on the gate like some students there, but regardless of what we did, the professors and guards seemed to abandon us.

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We returned to the building because we had no other choice but to find a way to save ourselves. Ms. Monica, Andrew, Elysa and Che are still with me. Every zombie was scattered around, and everywhere I looked I saw someone lying on the floor. Dead bodies of students scattered on the floor and voices of begging, wailing, and fear is everywhere.

“Ms. Monica!” Sir. Alec Lawrence Aquino called while he was in a room with some students who escape from the zombies. He encouraged us to go inside, but there was another male student guarding the back of the door, and he didn't seem to want to let us in because he was afraid we might get bitten by a zombie or infected with a virus.

“Edrolle! What are you doing? Get out of there and let them in.” I heard the male student say to him that he was also inside the room and I realized that we went to the engineer annex building where it is far from the Chemistry center building. But we had no choice but to go in there or else we would all die outside. When we entered inside, my attention was immediately drawn to the familiar face where she was standing by the window and looking out.

“Is that Monique?” Che whispered to me when she noticed her there too.

“She's still alive?” Elysa said that Ms. Monica also turned around and noticed that Monique was there. I silently observed her stares at her where her eyes were full of anger.

While we were staring at her, our attention suddenly shifted to the noise we heard from behind us, where we realized that Andrew was fighting with Edrolle because he didn't let us in earlier and if his colleague hadn't stopped him, maybe the zombies have overtaken us there. Sir. Alec immediately stopped them and separated the two of them. They both got a wound on the side of their lips and looked at each other intently.

“That's enough, Andrew. Just calm down, your hot heads won't help our situation now.” Elysa said to him, so Andrew just sat on one side, where he noticed Monique standing at the window. He grinned and shook his head.

“You're still alive? How much life you have?” He said to her, but she didn't pay attention to him, and she seemed to be deep in thought, possibly she was still in shock from what happened, especially since it all started with her cat. Elysa approached Andrew to keep him away from Monique because he might say something else to her.

“Is it because of her that you did this?” When I said that, Ms. Monica turned to me, but she immediately looked down and refused to answer what I was asking her. “What are we going to do now? Is there no other cure or other way for us to stop the spread of the virus?” I added, but again she didn't respond to me and just turned her back when Sir. Alec suddenly approached us with a smile on his lips as he stares at her.

“Are you alright, Ms. Monica? Aren't you hurt or injured? I heard about what happened to you in the laboratory, so I was worried about you.” He said that Che and I both looked at each other, where we discovered that he had secret feelings for her. But Ms. Monica didn't seem to like his confession, so she just ignored him and just sat on one side. Disappointment and shame were on Sir. Alec's face, but he still managed to smile as he turned to look at us.

“Are you all right? Are none of you hurt or injured?” he was curious even though his eyes were on Ms. Monica's whereabouts, so we just shook our heads and left.

“I can't believe that he still managed to confess his love for her despite what is going on around us right now.” Che whispered to me as we walked towards the window, where we saw some students running as the zombies chased them.

“What are we going to do now? Are we all going to die?” said the man who was also standing at the window watching what was happening at the bottom of the building. Che and I turned to him at the same time, and we noticed that he was crying.

“By the way, I'm Geovany Aguilar. Just call me Geo, and I'm from the architect class.” He suddenly looked at us, which surprised us because he suddenly introduced himself to us. “Maybe it's better that we know each other so that whoever is left with us and gets out of here alive can tell our loved ones or our parents that they were with us even though our lives were not easy here within the university.” He added at the same time removing his glasses and wiping the tears from his eyes.

Well, there is nothing wrong with what he said. No one knows what will happen to us the next day and who will be left safe among us. So, I approached him and extended my hand to him, then I introduced myself to him. Che, Elysa and Andrew did the same, and some other students did it as well. It's just that Monique doesn't seem to care about her surroundings.

“Help us here! We need help!” shouted by New Marlon Pardo aka New, an engineer student. We all turned to them, where we saw the zombies trying to open the door of the room. So, we immediately approached him to push the door shut, while the others were scared to came to the door and just watching at us while crying.

“It's better that we do it like this, only we men will block the door and you girls pick up the chairs and block the windows and the other door quickly!” Sir. Alec ordered us, so girls immediately followed what he said. But only a few of us moved because the others were afraid to move where they were, so the zombies increased even more, and they managed to break one of the windows there.